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EvergreenHow to Track RSS Subscribers using Meta Refresh in Google Analytics
This is the first of many How to Video’s I am going to be creating throughout the course of 2008. I go into brief detail on how to setup a meta refresh on a intermediary page, thus allowing google analytics to track RSS subscribers, for any blog using feedburner.
Please take note in the video I mention Meta Redirect when in reality I am talking about the Meta Refresh.
Here is the code you are going to want to use to make this work on your blog:
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”refresh” content=”1;URL=/feed”>
(note: you might have to manually add the double quotation marks if you are copy and pasting the above code into your WYSIWYG web editor.)
Simply attach that in your <Head> </Head> tag on your “intermediary page”, eg., brianchappell.com/subscribe.php on my blog. Then point your link to refresh to the physical feed page on your blog. (if you are using wordpress then it default’s to whatever.com/feed) After that is set up, drop your google analtyics code within the <Body> </Body>
It is as simple as that. Wait 24 hours, and you should start seeing your goal reports popping up.
Keep an eye out for a more detailed post on how to also make this work with Google click tracking using javascript tagging.
Also take kindly in understanding this is my first attempt at video creation, so it’s FAR from perfect. 🙂
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